(others greeting) i used to be the best stickup man in north philly. it's no joke. wasn't nothing i couldn't rob. let you in on a secret. it's not the gun. it's the attitude. i'd look in my victims' eyes. talk to 'em real quiet. remind 'em what's on the line if they play hero. they'd never have another christmas, never hear their wife laugh again. never hold their children. no probl after that. eh, that's not me anymore. been inside 12 years. sober every one of them. wasn't easy. a lot of time to worry on my mistakes. yeah. this kept me going. letter from my kid when he was five years old. caught the football for the first time. only i wasn't the one who threw it to him. all i could do, write him back. which i done, consistent. i haven't heard back in a while. don't blame him. kid's got a life. proud of that. (chuckles) i'm getting out today. going back to my son. got a job lined up. gonna do it right this time. god granted me a second chance. i'm taking it. (applause) ♪ ...i don't want to be your good time ♪ ♪ i don't want to be your fallback crutch anymore ♪ ♪'ll

miller: turns out it matched a nine mill used in an '81 north philly robbery. shortly after. you gotta be kidding. yeah. we're a barrel of laughs here. save the smart... remarks for the civilians. 'cause you're a cop. right side of the law. you want to take me in, girlfriend, go for it-- i'm calling my f.o.p. lawyer. so you found shaina mcnulty's diary. realized mike raped her, too. rush: your fault, that kid eating her gun-- you could have stopped him. i went to the da, right? told him i had two vics and a serial rapist on my hands. he said i had no witnesses, no evidence, no case. so you took care of business. your own way. our job is to protect the victims. sometimes you gotta bend the rules. rush: more than bend the rules. you went off the reservation, lafferty. damn right i did. nothing was gonna stop that guy except a smith and wesson. so you tracked him down. took him out. no. but i did what i had to do. (the psychedelic furs' "love my way" plays) tessie: so i was thinking we'd treat ourselves to a flick tonight. we got movie money, tessie? hey, don't wo

if you look over there it's like there is north philly over there in south philly over there and wasphilly over there with the kind of strong correlation between the men who now identify as salafi from the north and west and the men who aidala -- identify is coming out of the south. as i said that recapitulates according to them the logic of culture asian. if i know you on the outside i'm not going to get to know you now. it serves what you call the ecology of philadelphia. >> host: perhaps what stands as the definitive moment before and after in the entire book in which you narrate on one hand the rise of crack in the cultural state in the explosion of mass incarceration the expansion of religious freedom which we just talk about trade so many of the men narrate their story before and after the raid. why does this rate matter so much not just your story but these men's lives? >> guest: thank you so much because what i fear in the day today engaging in the ethnographic is that he can lose the contingency and the artificiality of the day-to-day and the world defined as graterford is o

conversations because i grew up like you, we're about the same age, clarence, and i got to look back at north phillyore impoverished than ever. >> right. >> the lines of what do you call it, just going down hill has moved up further north. more houses in disrepair. lousy signs up, signs of all kinds of poverty and fast food stores. not a decent fresh food market in sight. >> right. >> the food deserts. it just grows and grows. and the democratic party has been representing those areas as long as i have lived. >> that's right. >> and the president is the leader of the democratic party. >> i think if you look at where we were 50 years ago and where we are now. 50 years ago when you said inequality, people thought about racial inequality. i think president obama is going to talk about the other part of martin luther king's speech, economic inequality or wage inequality. >> what is he going to do for it? what can he propose even? >> i wish he would go first of all what protesters in d.c. have been trying get him do which is by executive order raise the minimum wage on fast food places that are contracte

that if you look over their there's north philly over there and self over there. here's west believe over there which a kind of strong correlation between the men who are now identified as policy coming from the north and west and the man who identify as coming out of the south. so, yes, as i said, that recapitulates according to them the logic of the culture that if i didn't know you on the outside i am not going to get to know you now. so it is preserved in what you call the ecology in philadelphia. >> host: maybe it stands as a definitive moment before and after during the entire book in which you married on one hand the rise of crack and the explosion of the mass incarceration to be the expansion of religious freedom, which we just talked about. so many of the men narrate their story before and after. why does this matter so much not just for your story. they are engaging in the day-to-day. the artificiality of the day to day and that is one of many. and i think without dispute is not the best of all possible worlds. so even as i engaged today i want to give a

but if you look over there it's like there is north philly over there with a kind of strong correlation between the man who are now identified as coming from the north and west and the man who identified as coming out of the south. so yes, as i said, that recapitulates, according to them the logic of the culture. if i didn't know you then i'm not going to get to know you now. so it preserves the ecology of philadelphia. >> host: mabey perhaps it stands as a definitive moment before and after in the entire book in which you narrate on one hand the rise of crack and of the explosion of mass incarceration, the expansion of religious freedom, which we just talked about. so many of the men who married their story before and after the rate. why did the rate matter so much not just for your story but to their lives? >> guest: thank you so much. what i fear in the day-to-day, engaging is that you could lose the contingency and the artificiality of the day today and that is where you find it is one of many. and i think without dispute it's not the best of all possible worlds. even as i engage in

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philly. vincent martin of north east d.c. was taken into custody. police are still looking for demarco james. the man entered a home on nicol james' ex-re girlfriend lived. they confronted a man in the residence and shot him. neighbors are stunned by the violence. close.as so right across the street. a shooting. kind of scary. >> police say martin is charged facesurder and james murder charges. other big news story. tighter security in howard university after a student was teenager says she was sexually assaulted in a classroom. where she spoke with students about changes. make sureool wants to students feel safe while and they are here. one thing they can expect, beefed-up security. quiet sunday afternoon on the campus of howard university, but in the next week more students will be arriving for the start of a new school year. >> i am excited to start classes. >> she and her friend are excited despite their sense of security being shattered this summer. , 22-f their classmates year-old omar sykes, was shot and killed near campus on the fourth of ju

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